Christmas in Hawai’i with AJ and Alyssa Rafael

DaBaddest Radio

Dear Media

Comedy, Leisure

4.9 • 661 Ratings

🗓️ 25 December 2025

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Bretman welcomes iconic singer-songwriters AJ & Alyssa Rafael for an episode filled with music, memories, and pure Filipino joy. They talk Christmas tour life in Hawaiʻi, Filipino traditions (including Christmas caroling hustles), how AJ first blew up here, poke cravings, Zippy’s orders, and why Hawaiʻi feels like home. Bretman also digs into their marriage, Broadway dreams, Wicked opinions, Disney nostalgia, and their chaotic friendship history.

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0:00.0	The following podcast is a Dear Media production.
0:04.4	Bradman to Earth, Earth to Bradman.
0:07.2	Girl, you already know who it is.
0:19.1	Hey.
0:20.3	Hello, everybody. It is Thursday yet again. Hey! Hello everybody!
0:21.6	It is Thursday yet again and I have two special guests for y'all this week.
0:28.6	And also this is my first official guest kind of that isn't family or friend.
0:34.6	Well, oh my god, you guys are my friends.
0:36.6	Not like, not like... we know what you are. I have my girlie here and she's a home best thing. You know what I mean? Yeah, yeah, yeah. You didn't, we weren't friends since like gap two days. Right, no. Yeah, you saw me after my. I think so. Because Alyssa sent me a picture of what... When you guys met for the first time... Yeah. Yeah, yeah. You were already... Yeah. Girl, I'm already sucking up being a host. AJ and Alyssa Raphael, everybody. Thanks for having us. So iconic that we're in here. Well, I know why you guys are here, but why are you guys in Hawaii? Yes. You go. Oh, thanks. We're here because we're playing a show at Blue Note, December 4, whenever you're listening to this, could be in the past. Hey, and we're on the Our Little Christmas tour. Our Little Christmas. So Honolulu, Napa Valley, and LA, and we're here for the show. Yes. Our little Christmas tour. I don't know when we'll slate this, but this will probably either be a week before Christmas or after Christmas. Yes. So you would have gone to the show maybe. Yeah. So there's a chance that we already had our little Merry Christmas.
1:45.0	Yeah.
1:46.0	And you got your merch, where in?
1:48.0	Yes.
1:49.0	I love that Hawaii is always in the stop of your tours, AJ.
1:51.0	Why is that?
1:52.0	Well, it was like one of the first places that played my music on the radio back in like 2010.
1:58.0	Oh my gosh.
1:59.0	Wait, do you remember who played it?
2:01.1	I don't remember the radio station, but I kept getting tagged on Instagram. I was like, no way. I need to go. I feel like it would be one or two seven the bomb. Probably. Yeah. Would it be? I really feel like because they have a DJ named Chris. Shout out like Chris. Hey Chris. Hey Chris. Love him down. Filipino? He's Filipino.
2:17.8	Yeah.
2:18.5	And he's always putting us on.
2:19.8	Because my first time on being on the radio, Chris. Shout out like Chris. Hey Chris. Love him down. Filipino? He's Filipino.
2:17.9	Yeah.
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